Synonyms for tempered
ˈtɛm pərdtem·pered

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1. temperedadjective

   Antonyms:
   untempered

2. temperedadjective

   The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale. — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter 19.

   Antonyms:
   untempered

3. temperedadjective

   1851 Not forged! and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming -- Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life! — Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

   Antonyms:
   untempered

4. temperedadjective

   1792 The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

   Antonyms:
   untempered

5. temperedadjective

   Antonyms:
   untempered

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1. tempered, treated, hardened, toughenedadjective

   made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

   "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"

   Synonyms:
   tough, toughened, set, hardened, inured, treated, case-hardened, enured, hard-boiled

   Antonyms:
   brittle, unmoderated, untempered, unhardened, unannealed

2. temperedadjective

   adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element

   "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"

   Synonyms:
   toughened, hardened, treated

   Antonyms:
   unannealed, unhardened, untempered, unmoderated, brittle

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1. List of paraphrases for "tempered":

   mitigated, attenuated, dimmed, tarnished, marred, moderated

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1. David Clohessy:

   Those who fear women deacons, or favor them, should remember how slowly Francis moves, any fear or hope that action might be taken soon should be tempered with that reality.

2. Rich Barton:

   I'm very comfortable with risk that is tempered, i kind of think of it as courage.

3. Eric Day:

   Communities and farms with large numbers of cicadas emerging at once may have a substantial noise issue, hopefully, any annoyance at the disturbance is tempered by just how infrequent -- and amazing -- this event is.

4. James Clapper:

   Well some of it, to be honest, is misinformed or uninformed, i have to believe though that whoever is elected president, which has to be a very, very sobering realization, that some of that rhetoric would be tempered.

5. Sydney Harris:

   Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.